Summer resident, benefactor William Cox Jr., gone at 82

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May 3, 2013 at 2:00 AM

Inquirer and Mirror

William C. Cox Jr., 82, of Hobe Sound Fla. and Nantucket, died Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at home in Florida.

Cox was a long-time summer resident of Nantucket, a member of the board of trustees of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, and an avid supporter of the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, among other island organizations.

Cox was patriarch of the Bancroft family that controlled Dow Jones and Company, owner of the Wall Street Journal and former parent company of The Inquirer and Mirror, before its sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Martha Whiting Cox, and children, William C. Cox III, Ann Cox Bartram, Heidi Cox and Martha Cox Farrell, 10 grandchildren, and a sister, Jane MacElree.

For more on William Cox, his life and relationship to Nantucket, pick up the May 9 Inquirer and Mirror.

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